Shell-holder for coin-counting machines.



P-ATENTED JAN. 31,1905.

I G. 'WHITE.

SHELL HOLDER FOR 00m GOUNTING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED APB. 14, 1904.

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SHELL HOLDER FOR 00m COUNTING MACHINES.

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SHELL HOLDER FOR 00m commune MACHINES.

APPLICATION nmzn APR. 14, 1604.

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3 packages, a series of paper shells or bags are UNITED. STATES Patented January 31, 1905.

' PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WHITE, or J-E asEY CITY, new JERSEY.

SHELL-HOLDER FOR COIN-COUNTING IVIACHINES.-

S ECIF C TION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,324, dated January 31, 1905.

Application fiieali rnii, 1904. Serial No. 203,144.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, GEoRe-E WHITE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of-Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shell- Holders for Coin-Counting-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shell holders. for coin-counting machines, and its novelty consists in the construction and adaptation of the parts. It is an improvement upon the coin counting and packaging machine described and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States No. 757,612, issued April l9, 1904:, to Essington N. Grilfillan. The machine in question comprises a supply-hopper with a series of chutes down which the coins drop by gravity upon a horizontally-reciprocating coincounting slide. ciprocate above a base-plate and is provided with a series of apertures each adapted to receive a coin as the slide .is moved forward As it is moved farther forward the end of the base-plate is reached and the coins drop down delivery-chutes provided to receive them. If it is not desiredto place the coinsin packages,

these chutes terminate in a bag or similar re.--' ceptacle in which the come are loosely received I and held. If it is desiredto place them in placed in a holder provided with apertures corresponding in position and number to the apertures in the coin-counting plate. The coins drop into the shells and the latter when full are removed with their contents. It has been found in practice that the loaded shells are awkward to remove from the holder and to handle, and my present invention relates more specifically to means for holding the shells while being filled and providing convenient means for folding in theirends and removing them from the machine, and comprises, generally speaking, a holder having a plurality of compartments each adapted to hold a shell and each shorter than said shell, means for lifting up and securing the holder in an elevated position'while the shells are being filled, and means for depressing the This latter is adapted to reholder so that the filled shells partially project above the'upper surface of the same.

'In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of the shell-holder and its supporting-frame, parts being broken away to show the parts beneath. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section 'on the plane of the line 2 2 in Fig. 1 and a side elevation of one side of the frame, showing the holder in its uppermost position. Fig. 3' is a similar section in miniature, showing the central part of the holder filled-with loaded shells and resting on the drawer-bottom. Fig. 4 is a miniature perspective of the loaded folded shell.- Fig. 5 is an end View of the frame-trigger. V Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the frame when compressed and on a smaller scale than that shown' in Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a vertical section'of a part'of the holder in its uppermost position and containing a loaded shell. Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 7 with the holder at its lowermost position.

the ends folded in, andFig. 10 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 6 looking from the right toward the left.

i In the drawings, .10 represents one of the discharge-chutes ofacoin-counting machine, 'a coin 11 being represented as falling down the same. At the lower part of the machine is arranged a shell-holder. 20, made of wood or other suitable material and supported on a frame 30, the frame and holder being placed within a drawer the bottom of which is shown at 4:0. The holder 20 is provided with a series of cylindrical compartments 21, each provided with an upwardly-flaring mouth 22 to admit of the easier reception of the coins.

The compartments 21 are arranged in transverse rows corresponding in location and number to those of the discharge-chutes 10.

The intention is that each discharge-chute 10 shall supply coins to its corresponding compartment 21 until the latter has received all 'of the coins intended for it. The compart- Fig. 9 -is a perspective view of the loaded shell with ments 21 are open both top and bottom. They are each intended to receive a paper shell 50, composed of a little cylinder of relatively stiff paper, the ends being folded in below to form a bottom. These shells are inserted in the compartments 21, and when the holder 20 is in the position shown in Figs. 2 and '7 they rest upon the drawer-bottom 40, the coins dropping into them in succession.

The holder 20 is provided at each end near its top with one or more outwardly-extending flanges 23, adapted to pass over and rest upon transverse rods 31 and 311, forming part of the frame of the machine, and with a catch 24, adapted to engage with a latch 41 to secure the holder firmly in its lowermost posi tion.

The frame 30 is adapted to support the holder 20 firmly and securely some distance above the drawer-bottom 410 and at the same time is easily compressible, so that the holder may be lowered to contact with the drawerbottom without jar or jolt.

The frame 30 comprises two pairs of levers or bars, one pair, 32 33, on one side and the other pair, 3 1 35, on the other side of the holder 20. These bars are connected by four transverse rods. Two of them are the rods 31 and 311, above referred to. The other two are the rods 312 and 313, connecting the lower extremities of the bars. Secured to the rod 313 are two upright bars 323 and 333, one on each side of the machine. These are connected by a transverse stiffening-rod 3 13 at about their middle. Each of the bars 323 and 333 is provided with a notch 300 at its upper extremity and with an outwardly-extending flange or trigger 301. Coiled springs 303 serve to connect the bars 323 and 32 and 333 and 35 for a purpose which will presently appear. The rod 311 fits snugly into the notches 300 and rests firmly thereon when the bars 323 and 333 are in a vertical position. If, however, the operatorpresses upon the triggers 301 301, so as to force the bars 323 and 333 outward, the rod 311 rides upon the rear side of the notch 300 toward the holder 20 and passes down along the inner edges of the bars 323 and 333, being always held in close contact therewith by theretractive power of the springs 303. As the bars 33 and 34 move down ward they carry with them the bars 32 and 35, to which they are pivoted, and this movement of course lowers the holder 20, suspended between them by the flanges 23 23, resting on the rods 31 and 311. hen the holder 20 has reached the drawer-bottom 40, the latch 11 springs into the catch 21 and holds it securely in position. WV hen it is desired to move the holder 20 upward again, the latch 41 is pressed back to release the catch 24, the levers 32 and 35 are moved upward, the rod 311 snaps into the notches 300, l

and the holder is again in place.

The method of using the device is as follows: It will be assumed that the machine is full and that the coins are falling down each of the supply-chutes 10 at each reciprocation of the counting-slide. The drawer at the bottom of the machine is moved forward until the row of compartments marked 21 are underneath these chutes. Thisdrawer, it will be understood, contains the holder 20 and frame 30, and the holder is in its uppermost position and contains shells depending therefrom, as shown in dotted outline in Fig. 2. It is kept in that position until as manycoins as may be desired have filled the shells in that row. The drawer is then moved forward until the row of compartn'ients designated 21" are underneath the chutes 10. These are filled in turn in the same manner. Then the row marked 21 is filled, and so on until all the shells in the holder have been filled. The drawer is then pulled out. It will be found that each shell 50 is filled with the coins desired and that the upper edge 51 of the shells 50 project upward within the compartments 21, as seen in Figs. 2 and 7. The holder 20 is then collapsed, when the shells are found to project beyond the upper surface of the holder 20, as shown in Figs. 3 and 8. In this position the upper edges 51 of the shells can readily be turned inwardly and downwardly upon the coins completely to enwrap and envelop them, as shown in Fig. 9. The holder 20 can then be completely lifted off, if desired, and the package readily removed.

Vhat I claim is 1. In a machine of the class described, a coin-shell holder provided with bottomless compartments, a support to hold the shells in position in said compartments to receive the coins and means for moving the holder on the shells to cause the upper part of the latter to projeetabove the hold or after such movement.

2. In a machine of the class described, a coin-shell holder provided with a plurality of bottomless compartments each shorter than the shell contained therein, in combination with a support for the shells below the holder and means for supporting the holder above the bottom of the shells while the latter are being filled.

3. In a machine of the class described, a coin-shell holder provided with a plurality of bottomless compartments each shorter than the shell contained therein, in combination with means for supporting the holder above the bottom of the shells while the latter are being filled and means for lowering the holder upon the shells to cause the shells to project above their respective compartments.

1. In a machine of the class described, a coin-shell holder provided with a plurality of bottomless compartments each shorter than the shell contained therein, in combination with a collapsible frame for supporting the holder above the bottom of the shells while the latter are being filled.

5. In a machine of the class described, a holder provided with a plurality of shell-holding compartments, a collapsible frame for supporting the holder above the bottom of the receptacle in which it is placed, means for locking the frame against accidental collapsing and means for unlocking the frame and permitting it to collapse and the holder to.

move downward. I

6. In a machineof the classdescribed, a holder provided with a plurality of shellholding compartments, means for supporting the same above the bottom of the receptacle in which it is placed, comprising a framework consisting of crossed levers in pairs on each side of the holder, one of said levers being permanently fulcrumed at the bottom and the other temporarily fulcrumed at the top, the levers being pivoted together where they cross.

7. In a machine of the class described, a holder provided with a plurality of shellholding compartments, means for supporting the same above the bottom of the receptacle in which it is placed, comprising a framework consisting of crossed levers in pairs on each side of the holder, one of said levers being permanently fulcrumed at the bottom and the other temporarily fulcru med at the top, the levers being pivoted together where they cross, each lever being secured at the top to the corresponding lever on the opposite side by a cross-rod. I

8. In a machine of the class described, a holder provided with a plurality of shell holding con1partments,-means for supporting the same above the bottom of' the receptacle in which it is placed, comprising a collapsible frame, means for locking the frame against accidental displacement, means for unlocking the frame and permitting the holder to be moved downward, and means for lowering the -same whereby the upper edges of the shells project beyond the upper surface of the holder after such movement.

9. In a machine of the class described, a

in which it is placed, comprising a collapsible frame, means for locklng the frame against accidental displacement, means for unlocking the frame and permitting the holder to be moved downward, and means for lowering the same whereby the upper edges of the shells project beyond the upper surface of the holder after such movement.

10. In a machine of the class described, a shell-holding frame comprising side members pivoted together in pairs and joined at their extremities by transverse rods, end members adapted to oscillate and yieldingly connected to the side members and means for locking the side members to the end members when the latter are vertical.

11. In a machine of the class described a shell-holding frame comprising side members pivoted together in pairs and joined at their extremities by transverse rods, end members adapted to oscillate and yieldingly connected to the side members and means for locking the side members to the end members when the latter are verticahcomp'rising notches on GEORGE wnirn.

Witnesses:

J. HERBERT Po'rTs, E..O. CHAMP. 

